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The Criminal Behaviour of Young Fathers

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø, finds that very young fathers who have their first child while they are still teenagers subsequently commit less crime if the child is a boy than if it is a girl. This then has a spill over effect on other young men of a similar age living in the same neighbourhoods as the young father. The research was covered on the British press.

Professor Dustmann and Dr Otten are coauthors in the first report in CEPR's Monitoring International Integration series, Europe's Trust Deficit: Causes and Remedies. They analyse the roots of the decline in trust in both national and European political institutions, as reflected in the rise of populist politics.

External Research Fellow

David Graham Blanchflower is the Bruce V. Rauner '78 Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. In 1973 he received his B.A. Soc. Sci. (Economics) at the University of Leicester, 1975 his Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of Birmingham, 1981 his M.Sc. (Econ) at the University of Wales, 1985 his Ph.D. at the University of London and 1996 his M.A. (Honorary) at Dartmouth College. He received an honorary D.Litt degree in 2007 from his alma mater, the University of Leicester and an honorary D.Sc. degree from Queen Mary, University of London in July 2009. He is a Research Associate for National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow for CESifo at the Centre of Economic Studies, University of Munich and a Program Director for the "Future of Labor" program, at the Institute for the study of Labor (IZA), Bonn. He is also serving as a Visiting Professor at University of Sterling. His main research interests are: Trade Unions, Entrepreneurship, Wage Determination; Youth Unemployment and Labour Market Responses to the Financial Crisis.

He received Princeton University's Richard A. Lester Prize for 'the most outstanding book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics published in 1994'. He was named the 'Business person of the year' by the Daily Telegraph, in their Great Britons of 2008 awards on 30th December 2008.